NieR: Automata - Story Explanation and Analysis 

Were the only male models the S types? I swear every other model was female

@@biotenki9760 The mad man actually made an entire play explaining that very question.

@@SophiaOfAthens it's hard to get a hold of, the only version I found with english subs got taken down.

@@SophiaOfAthens I think 2b and 9s read it out on a stream. But of course that won't really top the performance that the stage plays had. The few clips I've seen the actors are really hamming it up and giving it their all, and the choreography is incredibly impressive.

@@SophiaOfAthens Clemps on RU-vid does a recap of the play. It’s called Yorha Boys and it explains why every combat unit was made female.

"for the cute androids". Yeah right ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Yoko taro : *GOT'EEEEMM*

@Ryoshikari exaclty

did you pinch that quote from a Honest Trailers i cuda swron i heard that already somewhere

@@user-vo1rt8hf6y idk who that is so no

And that 9s technically is the "god" who created them. The original 9s model that was meant to be just a test for his personality went crazy (what a surprise) when his all male training team was all killed, and when he took control of the yorha project, he created the backdoor that the machines get in with and the false gods of humanity, since he found out that, surprise, all humans are dead, and knew that the androids needed a god to continue living. (Most of this told by the side story content that came out, specifically the male stage play)

but the Twist is that 9S's predecessor, and the original Android that 9S is a descendant of is Model No.9 the one that created YoRHa, the counsel of humanity, The Lie of Humanity, and 2B was killing this God, Again and Again, unknowningly, and what drove 9S to Insanity is being a descendant of his own original personality

@@alexisthompson376 yeah it's the ultimate irony

@@alexisthompson376 Where did you get all this info? I just finished Ending E (and deleted all my data without knowing :( ) and didn't know that 9S was the one who created all of this

@@LuzMcFly the RU-vidr Clemps did a very in depth review of the entire series

So true. After I finished the game I had a different outlook on life in general.

me too it was so crappily designed that i vowed to never play it again it utterly succeeded in making me angry annoyed bored notice so many mistakes in level design and gameplay as a whole i ended up feeling hollow and stolen from the story was fun on its own but becouse of al of its bullshit made meaningless to me

Nier: Automata has permanently raised the bar for video game storytelling and philosophical exploration. Even despite the budget it was a complete masterpiece. I will never forget it.

​@@mattg6106 raised what ? There are a LOT of videogames with a lot of toughts and ''philosophical' exploration' even yokotaro himself have been trying over and over to make nier automata since 2000... Nier only raised the bar for today's AAA games (just a little cause SH, Shock series, crono cross, suikoden 3, Fallout 1, 2 & New Vegas, games writen by chris avellone, lovedelic, Suda51, (this one it's a little to absurd but still, on a lynchian (good) way) SWERY, MGS and MOTHER series exist a long ago and always were almost mainstream)... oh and i almost forgot the biggest Surreal satire in game industries, Xenogears (wich if you didnt played you really should) ANYWAY i love nier as well, it just seems wrong and being a little too much tolerable with shitty developers to say philosophical exploration it's something new...

@@Leon-hp1wm Raised the bar... It's a saying... I never stated that the exploration of philosophy is *new* with Nier: Automata. But it did it all in a way that can't be done well through any other form of media and much better than the vast majority of games that tried. Nier: Automata was also not a AAA game nor does it matter how many previous games Yoko Taro made before. That has nothing to do with the subject.

hahahaha

Real art man

@@mylord4775 bro the creator of the game literally asked for it.

Yes! I love how this piece of art makes the most of its medium. There is no other way we could have had such an experience.

Ye

Nier Automata could only be achieved through the medium of videogames and it honestly serves as irrefutable proof that videogames are art and that they are, at the very least, a unique story telling medium. At most, it shows that videogames are the best storytelling medium we have yet to encounter.

Yeah that's how it is its a game after but a story first

Me too bro

Same

Tear-jerking.

Yup, that ending does that. ...aaand i choked at the ending here again. So goddamn powerful

Me too! I have no idea how I finished it 😂

yup

I did the exact same thing a couple years back, it's so emotional yet so rewarding

Glory to mankind! ... and Ryan Gibson.

How many time it takes to complete this game?

@@sigmaloner5611 it's... Technically 3 "whole" playthroughs, as the 4th one can be quickly completed with chapter select, thus unlocking the 5th ending.

The perfect Purge

Same. I didn’t realise those were other player messages until the game prompted me to write my own. When I realised, I started to cry

@@psyb0rgz447 same! Omg. I have goosebumps now.. It was so emotional and at this time I truly felt love for all the humans

Just finished the game. It's one of the most saddest yet heartwarming and uplifting games I've ever played

Yes absolutely. Thank you. I needed that too.

Same!

Same :)

Same, I’m just soaking in it’s beauty rn

It's such an amazingly wonderful game❤️

E was actually the true ending 😏

Glory to mankind!

2B climbing and dropping g from those ladders, but players have the camera ability to look up.

*E*

*finger snaps*

I gave up playing games years ago after MGS and I'm only 26 but your comment might have been the last drop to my bucket, time to get NieR: Automata.

You have had a stale life

Yashar ending E wasn’t even good, it was cool and a nice touch I guess but like it wasnt that mind blowing tbh

@AztecaDNA E. I really felt what they were trying to go for and for me, it was really great.

@@charel5222 So how did you like it? Just played through it myself, what an amazing experience.

I always had great appreciation for it's depiction of pacifism. Both in Pascal's trials and in side quests like protecting the joy parade.

it will be dissected for generations to come. I can't wait for the day it starts to be studied in the classrooms, among grapes of wrath and other philosophical works we use today to teach students.

@@nickmagrick7702 As a philosophy student (and not a first-year), I would rather consider NieR (both Replicant and Automata) as great introductions to philosophy. And a great way to convey its importance and inner beauty.

@@hungriarckie right?

@@nickmagrick7702I guess so. We need "good pop-culture" if such a thing can ever be claimed about anything. Something someone said about "educating the masses" etc... ;)

You are not alone.

As tough as your comment was to read due to the relatability of it, the catharsis I felt in knowing that I am not alone in this was exactly what I needed. Everything that you said, I've been feeling too and the ending of this video only further reinforced that feeling of relief I got from your comment. The refusal to give up on the things that matter and finding and knowing there's others out there in search of the same thing you're searching for, the same thing that I Am searching for, who also refuse to give up, makes it all worth it imo. Thank you for taking the time to express that. For our sakes and your own sake. Thank You. Keep on keeping on. We got this. You got this. I got this.

I would watch exurb1a's video called absurdism if you haven't already, it's very inspirational in spite of the types of dark rabbit holes these many lines of thinking can lead you down. He doesn't have some profound answer that no one else has ever come up with, and there likely won't be anyone who can simply teach someone else to cultivate their own meaning for existence ever, but his take at the very least leaves you feeling good and primes you for success despite whatever dread you may have. Also see Everything Everywhere all at Once if you haven't already.

Looks like the initial stages of awakening....

Did you do it?

@@---lt5br We do it many times over and over again lmao

Camus called that absurd hero The Rebel

isn't that the whole point of getting over it game lol

El Quixote?

I think you meant profoundly shit gameplay

@@lynnmorgan5897 gameplay was great in my opinion. Just finished all the main endings. Top game for sure.

@@lynnmorgan5897 exactly. As much as this game deserves to be loved and cherished for what it's about and trying to convey...it is actually a rather shitty game for what you are actually playing (Platinum Games-Combat saves it...mostly). If it just wouldn't be soooo fugly... ;)

@@tydendurler9574 fugly? I have played demon souls on the ps5, ghost of tsushima, red dead redemption 2, horizon zero dawn,, and I've seen (insert any pretty looking game here) on youtube. NieR:Automata is the most gorgeous looking game I have ever played. It's rather dull when a game is considered to look stunning just from its poly count and how saturated with detail it is. Take ghost of tsushima for example. In terms of actual texture quality, even things as important as Character faces and skin textures are shit in CUTSCENES. Not just gameplay but cutscenes. Yet that game is still beautiful because of how the world is constructed and presented despite not having impressive graphics from a technical standpoint. Automata is the same thing. Low poly by comparison, but the way the world is constructed is stunningly beautiful. A games environment doesn't just serve as a 3d space for the character model to roam around in, it's the literal stage of the story and all events that transpire. Having the story and themes and feelings be strongly linked to the environment is super important for establishing the environment as both important and even more gorgeous than from just looking at it. Why is Automatas color palette so monotone, grey, despairing even? It's because the game is dangerously depressing and despairing. The look and feeling of the environment perfectly matches the story and themes. Isn't it lonely, depressing, relieving, and peaceful that you, a human, are controlling an android that looks like a human and thinks like one, and are roaming through a ghost city where humans are no longer present but are completely extinct. Isn't that powerful? You as a human get to experience 3 perspectives all at once through this world's design and the games story. The perspective of a human watching an Android that practically worships humanity just roaming through one of our species mass Graves we currently call cities? The perspective of 'being' an android and discovering the fate of your creators? The perspective of a human thinking about what that world would be like if you were in it? The last human roaming until he dies in a desolate landscape that's also filled with life. Wouldn't it be peaceful to escape from humanity into a world of quiet and lack of human conflict? But wouldn't it get lonely and despairing to be, alone? I personally can gather all these perspectives from connecting the story, themes, characters and myself with the games environment, it's world. Something like red dead redemption 2, the last of us 2, horizon zero dawn, ghost of tsushima dont have that. They have pretty looking polygons. Automatas world is legitimate fine art by comparison. I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I refuse to sit back and let people bash this game that has a soul and purpose in its visual design and isn't something hollow like triple A games just having a nice coat of paint.

@@trevorveillette8415 ugh...yes, it has a soul and purpose in it's visual design and isn't some hollow Triple A Mainstream BS...yet, it's FUKKIN UGLY from a technical stand point! It looks and runs like a PS3 game. Period Just deal with reality my philosophy appreciating friend

"2BOOTY or not 2booty, that is the question?" - A2S/ASS2 "2BOOBS or 2BOOTY, that is the question!"

Hellsblade:Senua´s Sacrifice beg to differ...even though Nier is a great game, storywise and depth Senua takes the crown.

@@kurok1tenshi I disagree

@@kurok1tenshi I disagree too.

@@kurok1tenshi i disagree.

What are the other 4?

play omori and you will definitely add it to the list

if you haven't already done so

CycloneFox aaaaaaye don’t forget about Drakengard, and Drakengard 3. Those games do an excellent job on exploring the different styles of insanity and lust, in a much more perverted “honest” manner. Sadly, they don’t get a lot of attention.

Technically they're mixed media art installations

I'd say they CAN be art. Although it depends on how you define art. Personally I think, that not every product, hammered together by demographic analytics, is worth being called "art".

To me, it seems love itself is responsible for all beauty and suffering.

WE BECOME AS GODS!

same.

I cried because I lost my save files. And it was all for nothing since almost noone plays the game anymore

@@Xirnatts amirite?

@@Xirnatts I played it this winter for the first time and finished it yesterday. Thanks for your help and those of all the others. Have no regrets. I'm pretty sure people will still play this cult game in 20 years :)

@@Biouke

Eh to each their own. Thats the problem with overbuilding things in your head it's never going to match the reality as what u imagine is never going to match. Elden ring dlc is suffering from the same rn all these people mad they made up their own wild fantasy story that was never going to actually exist

SkinnySnorlax I completely agree. I feel like the fault in a lot of these philosophers, is that they cannot lose their arrogance. They tend to assume that all other forms of life must share our faults and perspective. That for whatever reason, “god” has to be a selfish human as weak as us. Our inability to accept that fact that all peril in life may just be our own fault, is what causes disparity to begin with. And that’s the one thing Neir doesn’t touch. The idea that these machines and aliens don’t have to act human. They can be completely different, and refuse to act human. But I guess the whole point of the game is worshiping humanity “glory to human kind”

Once you understand something completely, you dont really reject things, you simply discard them because its unnecessary to keep dead weight on you.

The trouble with Nietzsche is that he is angry enough for young men to identify with, but he is too complex for most young men to actually understand his points

@@timsickler5125 Anger is a weird reading of Nietzche's work. He's combative not angry.

@@wilburforce8046 You sound like the arrogant one to be quite fair lmao

I wanna say land of the lustrous but yeah girls last tour aswell

If you liked Girl's Last Tour I would recommend Made in Abyss.

Stay tuned. ;)

@@maxderrat omg yes!!

teehundeart agreed was all philosophy and fluff did not explain the story at all. did not mention much from story, if at all. i stopped listening with a couple minutes left. the title of this video is misleading. there are other places i can go for general philosophy analyses.

The title clearly says story 'explanation ' - ANALYSIS. I hope you understood and I hope you found the video you needed.

Yeah all he do is blahblahblah about stuff nobody cares

@@adalbertootero9907 245k people do Bunch of people liked it Mabye u don't like it because you have no idea what he's talking about

Hegel is a shit philosopher because he was quite incorrect lmao.

Ryuji Sakomoto try Drakengard 3, it’s amazing (not good technically speaking) and has my favourite characters in the entire NieR storyline

@@tovi3280 I managed to get so far into that game with all weapons upgraded and verses completed. However I never could quite finish it and I'm sure you can guess the section at the end that caused this :/.

Ryuji Sakomoto danggg I’ve yet to actually play it. Is the gameplay fun?

@@tovi3280 I'm not too familiar with the ins and outs of what makes a fun real time combat system but from playing the game I'd say that despite the increase in weapon variety you gain as the game progresses, I just got more tired of playing the further I got into thr game to the point where I would have just preferred the game was on autopilot. If the game was shorter I don't think I would really have an issue with it though but the game becomes so grindy that it just becomes a bit tedious

Zen.

What?!? No! Opposite.

@@tydendurler9574 I dont mean that in the sense that its a bad game. I'm just saying it makes me feel like, "damn... I beat it... now what do I do with my life?" Kinda when you finish a really great series or film.

Currently feel this right now 😥 time for second play-through

Definitely one of my favorite animes.

Thanks, mate!

@@maxderrat i would definitely have to agree this is the most profound game ever. While Metal Gear Solid 2 had the most profound moment in gaming history, this entire game made you think throughout everything. That and all of its narrative was combined into a flashy, fun, hack and slash with a bunch of other gameplay styles and perspectives that made this my favourite game of all time.

im replaying it right now, its great, again.

I do think there are limitations to what can be considered art, I don't believe every object in the universe is art. That being said, video games, from Pong to Call of Duty, are definitely art. Not always as deep and meaningful as games like Nier:Automata, but definitely still art.

@@thenew4559 I merely went with the purest definition of "art". "The expression or application of human creative skill and *imagination."* That last word being of immense importance. What is good or bad art we'll leave up in the air.

It's on my game list now I played Automata

CerN is spot-on. Nier 1 has one of the best gaming stories around.

i bought a xbox 360 just to play the original

@@carsonj4031 It's amazing. Just be prepared for this lazily designed section of the game were they tell you a story through text. Also, don't bother with the sidequests--stick to the main story and you'll love it.

i Played Autmata but still need find some enging and other cutscene like the robot who wished to be killed in this video the samarei on i dont know how to kill him because the doenst allow me or i need walk out and come back.. but i also really want play the 1 version because i want know emil story there i only need find the game in store or buy from online site

Omg. I've been screaming for a ps4 remake for YEARS now. That game probably has the best story of ever. Not to mention the gameplay is on point.

One of the few games I've actually platinumed

I have platinum'd both the original and Delta and it's among my list of favorites of all time. The story could even be called motivational and inspiring. I would like to see a video on it to raise awareness to people of it. The Vita was before its time in my opinion and because of that alot of great games aren't known of.

@@rimethefox1 absolutely agree. I haven't even seen a movie which has influenced my way of thinking as much as soul sacrifice. I must play it now. Actually I might not have platinum delta. Time to take care of that...

@@rimethefox1 and the way they worked in the mechanic of epithet saving or sacrificing your kills was just amazing. I loved my glass canon 99 sacrifice build. Good times.....

Thanks for subscribing and commenting, dude! I'll continue to produce the best content I can. :)

This has Bloodborne written all over it xD

Yeah...i'd rather call it "the best shitty game i ever played"

@@tydendurler9574 its soo much more then just a game

Maybe you should give a try to Chu-Lip a game developed by Love De Lic. Even though it isn't the same you discribed it is quite intresting and it's objetive isnt destroy

@@Leon-hp1wm Thanks, Leon. That sounds like an interesting different game.

drivel

@@steampunknoodles well aren't you fun